Missional Passional Vissional

Leader- not just people following them and serving their vision.

But a leader must cultivate God’s vision for the people that are serving you. Lead relationally and not visional.

God created us individually to to a redemptive work. People who will respond to each one of our voices. Do not suffocate each person’s individual voice that God put in them.

Presume that God has given each one of us a vision as clear as our own. This takes a lot of trust.

Starts with Vision- 10%-- Focus is future –where we are going -direction is thinking forward

Mission- 60% What I’m doing –Focus is about work –what it is that we are doing and when –wants to see outward change


Passion- 30% Serve individuals – focus is cause --who and why is this affecting --direction is hoping for inward change

Vision- the power of seeing. A visional leader is able to perceive and foresee the future. Sees the hope of Christ in others. Can be any number of people that they are casting a forward thinking vision. Their reality is the world of the unseen.

Nature of visional leader is to inspire, motivate, move and change. Inspired by movement and change.

Cautions about working with a visional leader- there will be an ongoing need to (make and effort to) trim transform and rationalize the vision. The vision is huge, so they need to trim it back for the group to get it.

It needs to go from an idea to a work. When I give my idea over to .. they transform it into reality. Will say how it will impact people’s lives.

Missional leader- knows the work they are here to do. They see things that need to happen. (achiever, activator) Their work is taking them somewhere. They have a direction and they are going there. Their work is part of their pursuit of truth.

Nature is doing, active, achievement. Hands on. Give organization and structure. Responsibility.

Cautions- there is an ongoing need to symbolize (to the vision people), personalize (to passion people), and simplify (only give a few things that need to be done at once).

Can help the passional leaders get stuff done.

Passional leaders- the suffering and death of Jesus Christ. Jesus died for people. Core is an unexplainable drive to meet the needs of others. They sacrifice for the cause of God’ people or all people… time, money, resources. Sense what is going on with the people and need to do something about it. Can be individualistic or global cause.

Nature- love, compassion, nurture, understanding.

Concerns- ongoing need for patience (when a passional leader talks to a missional leader explain it takes time for change), understanding (help them understand what is really at stake to visional leader), explaination (explain what you feel Some have a hard time helping if we don’t understand).

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You don’t have to have your fingerprints on every part of a project. Trust and hand off. To use your gifts.

Too many teams struggle with sight lines. Face outward. Not inward toward each other. The group is the center of the circle with Christ at the center. You agree on the cause and invest in each others lives but we are not meant to keep too many tabs on each other. Outward, missional focus.

Who you are

What environment

Always a why and when for right now.

Be careful of how you define love. Not always meeting all emotional needs.

Ask how do you want to be loved and not telling people how you are going to love them.

Let passional leaders care. That is what they need. Let a visional leader share vision with you. That is how they love you.

Sources: Mike and Brian and Mcmanus